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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Little Guide to Unhip

book by

Kate Rigby

Have you ever worried about not being quite hip enough? Or maybe you are one of those who flaunts your unhipness with abandon?

Either way, The Little Unhip Guide is for you. Although it charts my own personal unhip top 50 with the likes of Gilbert O’Sullivan, Morris Dancing, Vicar of Dibley, Sanitary Towels (with wings), and the colour beige to name but a few, I picked those characters, characteristics, attributes or material objetcs with a universally unhip feeling to them. Each is given an unhip rating up to five for you to keep a count of your own unhip rating, and some sections include a few personal anecdotes. There is also a ‘bubbling under’ list for a further 14 unhip things not quite making the top 50.

This book carries a warning: some readers may seriously dent their coolness if caught reading this material!

Kate Rigby has been been writing for over thirty years and has released many titles. Her latest is Little Guide to Unhip by Night Publishing. Little Guide to Unhip is a comedy lightly based on the author's own experiences as she blundered through her teen years to adulthood. Not targeted at any particular audience, but probably better suited to thirty-somethings plus due to the era of the novel.

Maybe Kate's "unhipness" has abated because she penned a punk novel titled Fall Of The Flamingo Circus which was published by Allison and Busby and by Villard. It was reviewed in The Times and The Face. Since then she has seen Seaview Terrace and Sucka! published by Skrev Press and Break Point, and shorter works have appeared in Skrev's avant garde magazine Texts' Bones including a version of a satirical novella Lost The Plot.

A poignant novel, Thalidomide Kid, was published by Bewrite Books which brings back the era of the 60s and 70s wonderfully, so if you're looking nostalgia as well as a tearjerker maybe that's the one to try.

Kate has many short stories published, and received a Southern Arts bursary for Where A Shadow Played (now renamed Œ Did You Whisper Back?), and Dancing In The Dark is an erotic anthology by Pfoxmoor Publishing.

Her novels tend to be character-driven and a bit quirky or gritty whether contemporary or retro and deal with issues of today: drugs abuse, homosexuality, neighbourhood conflicts, and a common theme is about the experience of being an outsider in society.

Titles now available on Kindle:

Little Guide to Unhip

Thalidomide Kid

Seaview Terrace

Break Point

Suckers n Scallies (formerly Sucka!)

Down The Tubes

Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16648 - Little Guide to Unhip

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/45068 - Down The Tubes

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/43721 - Break Point

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/42991 - Seaview Terrace